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the RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 24 , 
THE VALUE OF A BALANCED 
RATION. 
About 20 years ago we had two very 
smart young colts. They were both of 
good size, shape and color. It was our 
habit at that time to feed them awhile 
with oats and hay after they had been 
Weaned from their mother. About the 
last of June they were put into pasture for 
the remainder of the Summer, and during 
the Winter they had good hay and corn 
fodder, but no grain. They were in good 
flesh. Next Summer they had pasture 
again and during the Winter well-made 
Timothy hay and corn fodder, with plenty 
of exercise during the day in the barn¬ 
yard. Oe day towards Spring I noticed 
that one of them was a litttle knuckled 
right above one of his front feet. I 
thought he had strained himself in run¬ 
ning around in the yard, but in a few 
weeks or so later the other front leg be¬ 
came the same way; by that time the first 
one was worse. We also noticed that his 
partner was affected the same way. I sent 
for a doctor, and when he saw them he 
asked me what I was feeding them. I 
then thought that he meant the feed I 
gave them had produced it. I told him 
that all they got was good Timothy hay 
and corn fodder. “That is just what is 
making the trouble,” he said. I of course 
laughed a litt le. He told me then that 
those colts were plenty good enough in 
flesh, but they did not get anything to 
make bones. I told him I thought if a 
horse was good in flesh he would not 
need anything to make bone. 
“Well, I will satisfy you in this case; 
I will not touch their feet; I will give you 
a few pounds of condition powder which 
you may then give them each one a tea¬ 
spoonful of the powder once every day j 
on their food, which must consist of one 
quart of oats and one of bran three times 
a day for each colt, with the same hay, 
corn fodder and exercise, and in three 
weeks I will come again.” So he did; the 
colts were all right again, but we had sev¬ 
eral shotes then that were lame in their 
hind legs and back. I showed them to 
him; it was the same story with them. 
They received some milk, dishwater and 
an ear or two of corn. He advised me to 
have some oats and rye ground together, 
with some wheat bran mixed along with it, 
and keep the corn away from them a 
while. In a few weeks they were all right 
again; since that time I always feed 
mixed feed and never had a single case 
of such weakness. Some farmers around 
here are of the opinion that a concrete 
floor is more apt to cause such ailments 
than a plank floor. That time I had a 
plank floor, but for the last four years we 
have a concrete floor with just as good 
results. Feeding is nine times out of ten 
the cause of many such ailments, but a 
clean warm stable will help to prevent 
many a disease, and saves food. c. L. 
Pennsylvania. 
DREAM OF A FARM HOME. 
After working for about 25 years in a 
factory that required much manual and men¬ 
tal labor, I am thinking of quitting. I was 
raised in the country, came from there here, 
I know what it is to work hard, have built 
three properties rather than do nothing. 
At one time I worked for 25 cents a day; 
am now getting .$2.50. My work is very 
hard and confining, though not unhealthy. I 
am reading much on the field, garden, or¬ 
chard, vineyard, also about poultry. I have 
always kept a few fowls, been very suc¬ 
cessful in a small way, nice clean chick¬ 
ens so tame I hate to eat them, and have 
been able to raise about 90 per cent hatched. 
While I think of it let me say that those 
who have poultry and have not raised rape 
for them don’t know what a good thing they 
(the chickens) have missed. Our garden is 
always ahead of most our neighbors. Last 
Spring I had potatoes the last of May, nice 
large marketable ones. I would have had 
no grapes had we not sacked them. People 
who do not sack grapes do not know what 
they have missed. We picked the last of 
ours on the third of November. My grape 
arbor is the simplest and neatest I have ever 
seen. 
Another good thing I have “got onto,” that 
is concrete posts; I make mine at small cost. 
And paint? Well yes. Our dwelling is 
painted with white lead and oil, but all 
other buildings I paint with cement and 
skimmed milk. Yes, it is all right too. 
What we want to do is to get from three 
to five acres real close to town, and garden, 
raise poultry and small fruits. Don’t you 
think I can do it? I am 54, and want to 
get out of shop and see more of nature. 1 
long to see the trees, flowers, birds and every 
thing grow. but. weeds, Potato bugs, Cab¬ 
bage worms. Gooseberry and Currant worms 
have made a failure on this lot. I never 
could understand why people work hard to 
plant things and then let the bugs and worms 
eat them up. 
H. 
L. E. 
Ohio. 
IjAte Keeping Frdit.—W e 
had 
water 
melons for dessert December 6, of our own 
raising last Summer. We have russet apples 
in the cellar that were picked in the Fall of 
1904, are sound but some wrinkled but good 
to eat. a. w. b. 
Lenox, Mass. 
Some Good Hens. —Following is the egg 
record of a flock of 50 White Leghorn pullets. 
These chickens were hatched the last: week 
in April, and given very common attention. 
They began laying in October. The first eggs 
were little bigger than pigeon eggs. In No¬ 
vember they were put in their Winter 
quarters, consisting of a well-lighted house 
10 x 14, sheathed and ceiled with matched 
boards. Their breakfast consists of two 
quarts wheat in the litter; at noon a mash 
of two parts of bran to one part of beef 
scrap. For supper they get about one and 
one-half quart of whole corn. For greens 
they are given a head of cabbage about twice 
a week. When the weather is nice they are 
given the run of the yard in the afternoon, 
cracked oyster shells are kept before them 
all the time. In November these pullets laid 
152 eggs; in December they laid 496 eggs, 
and in January they laid 898 eggs. The 
January record gives an average of 18 eggs 
per hen for the month, or an average of 29 
eggs per day for the flock. This being the 
A B C in our poultry business I hope the 
X Y Z will not turn out as Mr. Mapes gives 
it on page 47. Our plans are to Increase the 
fl ock till it numbers about 500 hens. This 
will be as an adjunct to the market garden¬ 
ing business. H. s. w. 
New Holland, Pa. 
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Strawberry Plants KSt 
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Co., Homer, Mich. 
MORE GOOD CIDER ' 
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In this country there is a vast oppor¬ 
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his winter days into money- There is 
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through the winter days when most of 
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